Individual Details
Joseph Reading Lippincott
(28 Feb 1901 - 15 Dec 1944)
Events
| Birth | 28 Feb 1901 | Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA |  | ||
| Death | 15 Dec 1944 | interred overseas - Camp 501, Fort William McKinley, Philippines |  | |
Families
| Father | Joseph Barlow Lippincott (1864 - 1942) |
| Mother | Josephine Phillips Cook (1866 - 1951) |
| Sibling | Rose Harriett Lippincott (1890 - 1919) |
Notes
Death
Joseph Reading LIPPINCOTT, joined the U.S. Naval Reserve on 6 May 1942 and died 15 Dec 1944 while a prisoner of war in a Japanese internment camp in the Philippines.Joseph served as a Lieutenant, Supply Corps, in the Navy and was serving in the Southwest Pacific Theatre: Philippine Islands. He was killed either during transport to a POW camp on the ship Enoura Maru, or after he arrived.
He received a posthumous Purple Heart.
Endnotes
1. Frederick A. Virkus, Editor, The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy: The Standard Genealogical Encyclopedia of The First Families of America, Vol. I (440-442 S. Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL: F. A. Virkus & Company, 1925).
2. "World War II Prisoners o War, 1941-1946,'" Record 389, World War II Prisoners of War, 1941-1946, Records of the Office of the Provost Marshall General, Ancestry.com, National Archives and Records Administration.